Wednesday 9th April Iguazu Falls The day started at 8.00am with a morning walk of 1km which took over an hour and a half at every turn there was another view of the falls quite breathtaking when looking directly across at them. We are now in Brazil. Next was a visit to a bird park that works for conservation of species, it also has a larfe butterfly eenclosure, a few of the native snakes, including an Australians cassowary. It was quite well done and sit...

Day 1 Saturday 5th April. Melbourne to Buenos Aires Buenos Aires is some 12, 000kms from Melbourne , some 15 hours flying time and 3 air terminal changes . Andrew, Noah and Angus collected us at 7.00am for our trip to the airport and departure for Sydney 9.00am. Going through scanners Bill needed to go through twice for what reason no one could say. Emptying his pockets of small change, wallet, watch etc on the other side small change around $2 missing. This wa...

Most of you will have heard Bill and I are going to South America on 5th April for a month. We will be using our blog so this is a test to make sure it works. We will not be offended if you do not wish to receive it, just let us know so we can delete you off.

14th August, Wednesday, Gladstone Another day of phone calls but things are looking good for today and we can move on. This morning we took a ferry ride out to Facing Island and Curtis Island, there are small communities on these 2 islands and the ferry goes their twice a day. Gladstone isa deep sea port and many ships could be seen being loaded from our ferry. There is a fairly new Liquid Gas Plant on Curtis Island not that we got close to have a look at i...

7th August, Wednesday Emerald to Bedford Weir (Blackwater) 102kms It has been our intention to find a place to stay for a day or two. Billy Boiling our camps book and Wiki Camps both had this spot Bedford Weir. Heading away from Emerald we first stopped at the Coal Centre in Blackwater for a look and booked ourselves in for a mine tour on Friday morning. A brief chat to a couple who had stayed here last night suggested that the earlier you get out here the bette...